The Minnesota Vikings have had relatively good health throughout the 2024 season. Outside of Christian Darrisaw being lost for the season with an ACL injury, most of the roster was healthy heading into Week 17’s game against the Green Bay Packers.
However, the Vikings did have two notable players leave Sunday’s game due to injury. EDGE rusher Pat Jones II left the game after a low block from Packers tight end Tucker Kraft.
“It’s a right knee injury,” Kevin O’Connell said after the game. “Hopefully, we avoided a super long-term injury, but I won’t know more than that until he gets [thoroughly] evaluated. [I expect him] to miss a little bit of time.”
But the team got good news on Monday. According to Sports Illustrated‘s Will Ragatz, O’Connell believes Jones will “have a chance to even possibly make it this week.”
According to O’Connell, Aaron Jones was held out for most of the second half with a quad contusion.
On Monday, O’Connell said that Jones is “doing well,” according to ESPN’s Kevin Seifert. O’Connell added that the injury “should not keep him from participating this week.”
This is good news, as the Vikings face a Lions team that has had more than its fair share of injuries.